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- Comment on Solutions to the server-centric nature of the fediverse 10 months ago:
The solution to this is to start your own instance and federate the other instances that you want to make sure you can always reach. This is a solved problem, really.
- Comment on Some free fruit 10 months ago:
You might check out recipes for Indian lemon pickle. It’s a way of salt fermenting them that results in a spicy delicious condiment that can last for ages.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 10 months ago:
Can you summon a song in your head? A melody?
It’s that… But it’s your voice. And you employ it to think. It’s how I argue with myself and reason my way through a thing. I’m not sure how I’d get along without it, except every once in a while I get stuck on a problem, so I do something different. Often, the right solution to the thing I wanted to do will pop into my head. Then I need to work backwards how I got there. Both are useful, I prefer the information up front though.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 10 months ago:
I use it for reasoning. It’s a way to talk to myself without having to do so out loud, which I do a lot.
There is a segment of the population who, apparently, don’t have one. Even deaf people apparently have an inner monologue of hand signs visualized. But this segment just lacks one entirely. I don’t understand how they think, how they come to a conclusion. Things just pop into my mind, when I take my mind away from other matters and let my subconscious bake on an item… is this the way they think about everything? I don’t know.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
It’s absolutely authoritarian. You’re an idiot if you think otherwise. I’m not even going to offer an argument, you’re just stupid.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
Speaking as a “muh gunz” person that person is fucking stupid
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
It is, though
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Reusing credentials is their fault. Sure, 23&me should’ve done better, but someone was likely to get fucked, and if you’re using the same password everywhere it is objectively your fault. Get a password manager, don’t make the key the same compromised password, and stop being stupid.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Oh shit I better pull that ice out of my freezer then, I about blew up the world
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Weather/room temp wise we probably never will. I’d rather think of my environment in terms of 0 to 100 than in terms of -18 to 38. For science and engineering, Celsius is ideal, and I can convert between the two because I’m not an idiot who can’t do basic math.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
50 is great for just a light jacket and jeans. You’ll never get too hot, you won’t get too cold. So, yeah, as long as you’ve got clothes on it’s pretty perfect.
If I want to wear less clothes then 70 is a good bit better, but 50 is damn comfortable.
- Comment on Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start? 10 months ago:
Self reflection is good. Learning from your mistakes is good. Regret is useless. It’s just agonizing over something unchangeable. It’s important not to confuse them, lest you end up dwelling on the past and missing the lessons.
- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 10 months ago:
And this isn’t an enterprise thing. It’s my home NAS. For business things I just use AWS like any sensible person.
- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 10 months ago:
A 16TB, a single one, right now is $1800.
As I said, as they become available (read: affordable) then I’ll use them. Until that point… mechanical drives have worked well for 50 years and are fine for me. I can accept a margin of problem, it’s the reason I use RAID.
- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 10 months ago:
My NAS device has 80TB of usable space (6x16TB, raid5). Equivalent would’ve cost tens of thousands of dollars in drives alone.
Once 16TB SSDs are even available I will probably start migrating them in, but for now mechanical drives it is.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 11 months ago:
Those people aren’t great at thinking things through. They’re “idea people”.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 11 months ago:
No it shouldn’t.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
No. This argument is stupid
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Well she’s at least as clever as that, so suppose you guys got ax little in common.
- Comment on Betrayal 11 months ago:
I’m pretty fucking into sandwiches
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
That’s a bad joke
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Well considering I’ve been using it for 25 years and it literally has had its own Wikipedia page since basically Wikipedia existed… no. It’s not a buzzword. It’s just a term used to describe an idea.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Why? This sounds like FUD.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
Yes. Containers are awesome in that they let you use an application inside a sandbox, but beyond that you can deploy it anywhere.
If you’re in the sysadmin world you should not only embrace Docker but I’d recommend learning k8s, too, if you still enjoy those things.
- Comment on Serious question guys 11 months ago:
That’s a platypus
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
They say you don’t fully understand something until you can explain it to a 7 year old.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
Data is written to a tape in one direction. It’s on a very long magnetic ribbon. That ribbon is wrapped around two spools.
Once you read through the data you have to wind it all the way backwards to read it front to back again.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
Beetlejuice? Beetlejuice.
- Comment on YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" 11 months ago:
Muscle pain relief is pain relief. I don’t go to a chiropractor and I’m confident most of them are selling snake oil but I kinda view them as a next level masseuse.
If I were more comfortable with strangers touching me a massage might be nice. A chiropractor sounds like a next level up. I feel relief when I get a good back crack.
- Comment on Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first... 11 months ago:
Well… they spelled “19” correctly.